5 Seconds of Summer have returned with a new single, ‘NOT OK’, their first new music in three years, and confirmed they have signed to Republic Records.
The track arrives ahead of the band’s sixth full-length album, ‘Everyone’s A Star!’, due 14th November, which was created across 2024 and 2025 in Los Angeles and Nashville.
The quartet – Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, and Ashton Irwin – worked with Jason Evigan, as well as Julian Bunetta and John Ryan, on the record. It follows their 2022 album ‘5SOS5’.
Luke Hemmings says, “It has the older 5 Seconds of Summer energy, but it’s different—which is the whole M.O. of this chapter. Lyrically, it’s about letting out the darker side of yourself and embracing it. The song is also a nod to the band itself. We pull those sides out of each other.”
Speaking about the forthcoming album, Luke adds, “This band is made of four people who could all have their own solo albums where they do it all, sing it all, and write it all. Everyone’s A Star! embodies all of that. We were teenagers at the beginning of 5 Seconds of Summer. We were writing with more naivete, but we said what we were thinking. As time goes on, you tend to get a bit more cautious about what you say, but I think this record has more of our original spirit – but with 15 years of wisdom and a dash of reckless abandon.”
The tracklisting for ‘Everyone’s A Star!’ reads:
‘Everyone’s A Star!’
‘NOT OK’
‘Telephone Busy’
‘Boyband’
‘No. 1 Obsession’
‘I’m Scared I’ll Never Sleep’
‘istillfeelthesame’
‘Ghost’
‘Sick of Myself’
‘Evolve’
‘The Rocks’
‘Jawbreaker’
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